Some long-time and dear friends of mine are storing a 100-year-old cider press on their farm for a friend. Every year they have several afternoons of cider pressing, doughnut making/eating and general enjoyment of the lovely fall days (and the crummy fall days).

Some fruit juice of our labors

Some of the actionMy friend Bigfoot who travels with me near and far is on the bottom left.

oh, i live very close to an orchard where we pick apples and can buy cider BUT they pasturize it, grr! i wonder if i can make a deal with them for some 'real' cider sometime. i'm gonna ask.

Doesn't hurt to ask, that's for sure. I know that there are places one can rent an apple press, not usually as big as the one in the picture, but still. It would be a fun party if you could get enough people to create a big enough volume of cider to make it worth the trouble.